The Association of Internet Researchers calls for nominations for the 2015 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award and the AoIR Dissertation Award. Details for each award below! Nancy Baym Annual Book Award The Nancy Baym Annual Book Award seeks to recognize the best work in the...
Call for Self-Nominations: AoIR Award Committees
Each year, AoIR presents three awards at its annual meeting: the Best Student Paper Award, the AoIR Dissertation Award, and the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. (You can find more information about these awards here.) We are calling for self-nominations to serve on the...
2014 AoIR Dissertation Award
I am very pleased to announce the recipient of the 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award: "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China” by Dr. Elisa Oreglia. Dr. Oreglia received her PhD in Information Management and Systems from...
Announcing IR15 Best Student Paper Award
The IR15 Conference Committee is pleased to announce that this year’s Best Student Paper award goes to Rodrigo Davies from MIT for his paper “Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding.” Davies' paper takes a thoughtful approach to considering crowdfunding strategies...
Announcing Winner of Nancy Baym Annual Book Award – 2014
I am delighted to announce two things concerning the AoIR book award. First, in light of her generous and various contributions to the Association of Internet Researchers, we are naming our book award for Nancy Baym. Second, I would like to announce that the 2014...
2014 AoIR Book Award: Call for Nominations
We are pleased to announce the fourth annual AoIR award for the best book published in internet research. This award seeks to recognize the best work in our field, and highlight the breadth of work that is done relating to the social and cultural dimensions of...
2014 AoIR Dissertation Award: Call for Submissions
The Association of Internet Researchers calls for submissions for the 2014 AoIR dissertation Award. To be eligible for the 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award, a PhD dissertation in the area of internet research must have been filed in the 2013 calendar year. In addition to...
AoIR Book Award 2013
It gives us great pleasure to announce the winner of the 2013 AoIR Book Award, which celebrates an outstanding book published in the previous year that addresses issues relating to our field. The book is Julie E. Cohen's "Configuring the networked self : Law, code,...
AoIR Dissertation Award, 2013
Congratulations to the recipient of this year's AoIR Dissertation Award. The award-winning dissertation, “Programmed sociality: A software studies perspective on social networking sites,” was written by Taina Bucher. Bucher received her PhD from the University of Oslo...
Elections for AoIR Executive Committee Members
We are pleased to announce that AoIR has now commenced the process of electing a new Executive Committee to take office in October of this year and serve until October 2015. We are seeking nominations for the new executive. We also note that voting for your executive...
